Two Portland police officers face accusations of intoxicated driving after a pair of arrests more than a week apart -- one in Gresham, the other in Clark County, the Portland Police Bureau reported.

The officers were placed on desk duty, taking police reports over the telephone, pending the outcome of their separate DUII cases and an internal review, said Lt. Kelli Sheffer, a bureau spokeswoman.

On Nov. 6, Officer Joshua Sparks was stopped by a Washington State Patrol trooper about 11:20 p.m. in the northbound lanes of Interstate 205 after the trooper clocked Sparks driving 72 mph in a 60 mph zone. After pulling Sparks over, the trooper arrested the three-year bureau veteran on DUII accusations.

On Sunday, Officer John Shadron was involved in a crash with another vehicle near Southeast Salquist Road and Orient Drive in Gresham. Gresham police investigated the crash and arrested Shadron on suspicions of DUII. Neither Shadron nor the other driver reported injuries.

Sheffer said the bureau was also looking into an earlier incident involving Shadron. In January, the 11-year-veteran was arrested by Gresham police on accusations of careless driving, a misdemeanor. Shadron pleaded guilty in March and was issued a $400 fine, court records show.

Both Sparks and Shadron were off-duty when they were arrested, and neither was in a police-issued car, Sheffer said.

Sheffer said she could not provide mug shots of either man, as neither was booked into jail.

Sheffer said it took the bureau 10 days to release information about Sparks' arrest because they were not immediately informed that it had happened. She said an unspecified employee who would normally have told command staff of the arrest was on vacation.

The announcement of the arrests comes the same day that Portland Police Chief Mike Reese handed down discipline to five officers in two separate incidents, something Sheffer attributes to "timing and coincidence."

Sheffer said discipline was meted out against Frashour and Kruger on the same day because the investigations into each happened to end at the same time.

Sheffer declined to release the ages of the officers arrested on DUII charges, noting that the bureau
is careful not to hang their officers out to dry in public, even when
those officers are accused of getting behind the wheel drunk.

"We want to protect our employees and our officers and take care of them, and be transparent with our citizens and the media."

The
police bureau is waiting until the completion of an internal
investigation into the DUII arrest to release the results of an earlier
internal investigation into drug-abuse allegations against Dunick,
Sheffer said Tuesday.